Show Stockmen Driving Cattle Long Distances to Escape High Rates WASHINGTON MD May 26 if By Dy The A Associated I Tho The Com Com- merca Coni-merca mere merce commission which Is hearing arguments en the tho propos d western freight rate rato Increase today heard a com coin complaint pl plaint that livestock r rate tes in inthe inthe the southwest t already are so eo eol l hIgh that cattle men are avoiding use of ot tho railroads Appearing as a II cattle raiser rather than as a member of ocon congress rec s Hud Hud- Hudspeth Hudspeth Hud Democrat Texas fexas told the Iho commission that otto ono of his herds recently was wa moved on foot over the tho trails miles at a n cost of ot SO 60 Cents cent II a ahead ahead head whereas it would have cost him hint a head to 10 ship them to 10 the tho same Ham destination Another cattle man he lie de- de declared de declared dared drove a herd from the Iho Texas Pan Handle to II a aKan Kansas KanS JI a ranch BOO mills mill's away to a avoid void payment of freight rates Challenging the Iho lets of ot the railroad com corn companies companies panics to show how where any cattle raiser In Texas bad Iad earned more nuoro than 3 per percent ont In the tho last five rive years Mr Mn Hudspeth said the tact fact of the matter was that the growers of ot livestock were leaving the lh ranches ranche by the tho thousands It lt is a serious condition for tor Iho tho cattlemen of ot Texas ho he said ald when they have ha to 10 return to 10 the old trail driving lays days to save themselves against excessive freight rates rateL Ho Ito argued that It Ita was a In inthe the tho est of the th railroads as s well as a the th producer to reduce livestock rates to the war pre war level He lie also protested against discrimination in the transportation of ot sheep heep In double deck ears cars car rates for tor which from Texas he h said were more to Kansas City on a carload of or shee sheep than tItan on It a carload of ot steers |